Authorship in Context. From the Theoretical to the Material

Authorship in Context. From the Theoretical to the Material

Edited by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and Polina Mackay

New York, Palgrave Macmillan

2007, 256 p.

Description

This book maps the terrain of Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary marketplace, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture. Gender and (post)colonial issues around authorial identity and literary work are further explored in relation to publishing policies, graphic media, and the Internet.

Author Bio

Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi works in the School of English at Exeter University. Polina Mackay works in the School of English at Birkbeck College.

Table of contents

Introduction; K.Hadjiafxendi & P.Mackay PART I: INTELLECTUAL HISTORYThe Decline of the Critic; T.Eagleton * PART II: NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND THE MARKET PLACE * The Author, the Editor and the Fissured Text: Scott, Maturin and Hogg; V.Sage * George Eliot's Aesthetic of Delitescency; K.Hadjiafxendi * Liberal Editing in the Fortnightly Review and the Nineteenth Century; H.Small * PART III: TWENTIETH -CENTURY EXPERIMENTALISM * F.R. Leavis: The Writer, Language, History; M.Bell * Mind that Crowd: Flann O'Brien's Authors; J.Brooker * Authorship in the Writings and Films of William S. Burroughs; P.Mackay * PART IV: POSTMODERN CULTURE * Postmodernism. Criticism and the Graphic Novel; D.Punter * William Gibson: Consumerism and Electronic Authorship; T.Rapatzikou * Towards a Politics of the Small Things: Arundhati Roy and the Decantralisation of Authorship; M.S.Alexandru * Recommended Bibliography * Index